Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1109040029570.3887@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Eyebeam blog
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
Eyebeam blog As a resident of Eyebeam, I'm going to be blogging on their site, http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ - you might want to check it out. My project involves thinking through avatars and virtuality in relation to pain, wounding, and death - how these may be manifest in virtual worlds and how they may affect real, physical worlds. This is compounded by the state of my father, who, we found out today, is dying, and who has had a difficult and painful relationship with me from my beginning. I have never been able to 'shake' death, to 'shake' thinking about death; there are times I feel that I'm in a permanent state of collapse as a result. So the coincidence of the start of the residency with my father's state is both unnerving and painful, everything comes together, falls apart, in the blog.